The build up to a wedding can be long, elaborate and expensive, but having your friends by your side and involved in creative DIY wedding projects is a great way to cut the costs and boost the fun.
Bridesmaids
- Perhaps the most common way to get your bridesmaids involved is to ask for their help to create personalised invitations. Wholesale Wedding Superstore has one of the best selections of wedding accessories and paper craft paraphernalia in Australia. If you are not especially patient or creative, having friends on hand to help you with the designing, cutting, sticking and writing is a great help.
- Whether you plan to rustle up some delicious home-baked favours, make cupcakes for your hen party or even bake your own wedding cake, bridesmaids can make things less stressful. While home baking adds a beautiful and affordable personal touch to your wedding, there’s no doubt that taking on a job like that can add to your stress. Delegate as much as you can to make your baking blitz fun.
- Does baking your favours sound like too much hassle? Whether it’s confections that need to be put in bags or boxes or something sweet and unique, bridesmaids can be a great help when completing these monotonous tasks. Cook a nice meal, buy some good wine and use the time to bond with your best friends over a repetitive but undemanding task.
- Blessed with crafty bridesmaids? Put their skills to good use to add extra details to your wedding decorations. Have fun creating origami crafts, making paper cones stuffed with dried rose petals from the pages of old books, or creating quirky place holders or table centrepieces. A few talented bridesmaids can take your wedding decorations from drab to dramatic. Why not ask an artistic friend to help you create a colourful ceremony backdrop? A bridesmaid who is nimble with a needle could help to add a personal touch to wholesale wedding supplies like sashes, tablecloths or chair covers.
- Wills and Kate resuscitated the tradition of tin cans tied to the post-reception car. There’s something cute and kitsch about the rattling can idea, and this is an extremely simple craft you can get your bridesmaids involved in. Ask them to save and clean some tin cans and bring them over to your place. Fill the cans with water and freeze. Create covers for your cans using coloured papers that match your wedding colour scheme and style. Place your filled, frozen cans on a board and hammer large nails into the bases. The ice in the cans stops them from buckling out of shape. Melt the ice, dry your cans and tie a piece of strong wool or string to the nails. Finally, use strong paper adhesive to glue the labels to your cans. Ta-dah!
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